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Anonymous User wrote:Which is better considering:Ease of commute - depends on where you decide to liveCost of housing - Financial district is cheaper, Village is expensive, Midtown is an awful place to liveRestaurants - Midtown, but dependent on what you likeThings to do - Midtown easily

Answered above, though I'm assuming you mean financial district by "downtown"

Housing downtown (at least in the Financial District) is cheaper and nicer, but there is less to do. There also tend to be a lot more tourists in midtown, so it's more crowded and can be tougher to get around.

Best bang for your buck + great area to live is central park NW. Pretty much the boarder of Manhattan Valley, Morningside and Harlem. Really up and coming area with access to the B/C and 1/2/3 trains. Really good sized apartments are on the market there for pretty cheap comparatively and you have direct access to everything NYC has to offer. Would definitely consider it no matter where you work.

If Midtown v. Downtown:

- Ease of Commute - depends on where you live and work (obviously)- Cost of Housing - Downtown is definitely cheaper - battery park and the rest of FiDi is pretty cheap relative to the size and quality of the apartments, however, SoHo, Tribecca, the village, etc are ridiculously expensive. Midtown is absurdly expensive and the apartments suck - literally have never seen a nice apartment in midtown that wasn't 4K a month +- Restaurants - again, depends what you mean by downtown - the villege/soho/ABC city has amazing spots to eat. FiDi has meh spots and they get old real fast. Midtown, again, sucks and everything is overpriced, but there are some decent spots in Hells Kitchen.- Things to do - doesn't matter, you can take a cab or the subway anywhere you want.

Honestly though, midtown fucking sucks, I would never live there. The best places to look would be East Village or ABC City. Also, where I recommended if you like the vibe of the UWS and want a more residential feel for 1/2 the price of the west village.

Anonymous User wrote:Best bang for your buck + great area to live is central park NW. Pretty much the boarder of Manhattan Valley, Morningside and Harlem. Really up and coming area with access to the B/C and 1/2/3 trains. Really good sized apartments are on the market there for pretty cheap comparatively and you have direct access to everything NYC has to offer. Would definitely consider it no matter where you work.

If Midtown v. Downtown:

- Ease of Commute - depends on where you live and work (obviously)- Cost of Housing - Downtown is definitely cheaper - battery park and the rest of FiDi is pretty cheap relative to the size and quality of the apartments, however, SoHo, Tribecca, the village, etc are ridiculously expensive. Midtown is absurdly expensive and the apartments suck - literally have never seen a nice apartment in midtown that wasn't 4K a month +- Restaurants - again, depends what you mean by downtown - the villege/soho/ABC city has amazing spots to eat. FiDi has meh spots and they get old real fast. Midtown, again, sucks and everything is overpriced, but there are some decent spots in Hells Kitchen.- Things to do - doesn't matter, you can take a cab or the subway anywhere you want.

Honestly though, midtown fucking sucks, I would never live there. The best places to look would be East Village or ABC City. Also, where I recommended if you like the vibe of the UWS and want a more residential feel for 1/2 the price of the west village.

There are plenty of nice, affordable apartments in HK and Midtown East/ Murray Hill. Given your recommendation of Alphabet City (LOL), I can tell that maybe you just don't like the type of people that live in midtown.

Anonymous User wrote:Best bang for your buck + great area to live is central park NW. Pretty much the boarder of Manhattan Valley, Morningside and Harlem. Really up and coming area with access to the B/C and 1/2/3 trains. Really good sized apartments are on the market there for pretty cheap comparatively and you have direct access to everything NYC has to offer. Would definitely consider it no matter where you work.

If Midtown v. Downtown:

- Ease of Commute - depends on where you live and work (obviously)- Cost of Housing - Downtown is definitely cheaper - battery park and the rest of FiDi is pretty cheap relative to the size and quality of the apartments, however, SoHo, Tribecca, the village, etc are ridiculously expensive. Midtown is absurdly expensive and the apartments suck - literally have never seen a nice apartment in midtown that wasn't 4K a month +- Restaurants - again, depends what you mean by downtown - the villege/soho/ABC city has amazing spots to eat. FiDi has meh spots and they get old real fast. Midtown, again, sucks and everything is overpriced, but there are some decent spots in Hells Kitchen.- Things to do - doesn't matter, you can take a cab or the subway anywhere you want.

Honestly though, midtown fucking sucks, I would never live there. The best places to look would be East Village or ABC City. Also, where I recommended if you like the vibe of the UWS and want a more residential feel for 1/2 the price of the west village.

There are plenty of nice, affordable apartments in HK and Midtown East/ Murray Hill. Given your recommendation of Alphabet City (LOL), I can tell that maybe you just don't like the type of people that live in midtown.

ABC CIty is awesome, tons of great spots to eat and great laid back bars, maybe not the best for some awesome biglaw lawyer, but its one of the few remaining laid back spots in the city. It's not the people in midtown, I have plenty of friends that live there, its just the fact that midtown sucks. Traffic is brutal, no parking anywhere if people want to visit you, and there is nothing exceptional about getting a 1 bedroom closet with no AC for 3,200 bucks. Other than HK, there is not one area that is appealing other than ease of commute.

Even if I worked in midtown I wouldn't want to live in that area, especially midtown west. Maybe midtown east or Hell's Kitchen but if you're going that far out might as well look somewhere else entirely.

anon168 wrote:Even if I worked in midtown I wouldn't want to live in that area, especially midtown west. Maybe midtown east or Hell's Kitchen but if you're going that far out might as well look somewhere else entirely.

Depends: midtown east you can live in Murray hill or the UESMidtown west and you can live in UWS, Chelsea or the Village.

Anonymous User wrote:The areas that I'm talking about above are 100% safe. Take this as a biglaw associate who lives and commutes from there. Also my apartment is nicer than yoursz

JC might be safe, but it's a dumb. Hoboken is great, but late at night the commute's a bitch. And I severely doubt you've got nicer accommodations than me, but that's not part if the discussion

How's it dumb??? If you work in FiDi, your commute is 10 minutes. You save $700 a month on city tax, and your rent is lower. Also the apartments have central heating, floor to ceiling windows, etc. basically your manhattan mima rental in JC.

Hoboken is great too... More to do for sure, but commute is not nearly as good. Also, they had no path for like 5 months after sandy because entire area was underwater.

Anonymous User wrote:The areas that I'm talking about above are 100% safe. Take this as a biglaw associate who lives and commutes from there. Also my apartment is nicer than yoursz

JC might be safe, but it's a dumb. Hoboken is great, but late at night the commute's a bitch. And I severely doubt you've got nicer accommodations than me, but that's not part if the discussion

Just to advocate for JC a bit. I've personally been in the building below and it's spectacular. Area's pretty nice too. Bottom line: if BK is in the convo, then JC and Hoboken should be as well. Commuting issues are a wash.

I meant to say dump, not dumb. Like I said before, Hoboken is definitely a cool place and I'd say a better option than Brooklyn, but I recall long waits for the path late at night, so I thought I'd ask. JC is no worse than LIC or upper Harlem, but I wouldn't want to live there either.

guano wrote:I meant to say dump, not dumb. Like I said before, Hoboken is definitely a cool place and I'd say a better option than Brooklyn, but I recall long waits for the path late at night, so I thought I'd ask. JC is no worse than LIC or upper Harlem, but I wouldn't want to live there either.

Again, what are we comparing? I'd never, ever live in Journal Square. But Exchange Place? Paulus Hook? Those areas are crazy fucking clean, way cleaner and nicer than any area of Manhattan. Easily.

Is there a lot to do in Jersey City? No. That's the big flaw. Mostly a community of families as opposed to singles (Hoboken). I'd say the border between "dump" and "super nice" is just beyond the Grove Street Path Station.

As a first year, I was living in one of the nicest areas of Manhattan. My area and place in JC is 10x better, and my rent $800 cheaper, and my paycheck $700 higher.